Each person is a mosaic of sex-related and postpubertal biological traits that vary in their degree of femaleness and maleness.
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How has the UK’s health changed since 2001?
Biological sex isn’t always simple.
Women’s changing libido has been treated as biological fact — the product of evolution or hormonal destiny. But differences in sexual experience early on can have a real and lasting impact.
Media consumed in adolescence can have a major impact on sexual behaviours and expectations.
Erectile dysfunction treatment has long relied on self-reporting and a narrow set of treatment options. Advances support an increasingly personalized, data-driven and patient-centred care model.
Relationships with real people can involve rejection, awkwardness, time and emotional labor. But in the ‘goonverse,’ desire is predictable, endlessly available and never says no.
The struggle to bring Addyi to the market exposes persistent gender bias in medicine, particularly in how women’s sexual health is researched, regulated and treated compared with men’s.
Today’s romance novels spotlight women in control in the bedroom and in their relationships.
Bridgerton’s talk of ‘the pinnacle’ may have launched countless memes about orgasms. But there’s a lesson for all parents.
Count Dracula was originally a rank-breathed predator. His transformation into a tragic romantic mirrors a century of shifting attitudes about sex, gender and desire.
Young people with life-shortening conditions want full lives, including relationships, but support around sex and intimacy is still lacking.
Research suggests many young adults do not understand the difference between stopping air and stopping blood flow to the brain.
New data reveals differences in gene activity in the brains of men and women. They start in the womb and evolved millions of years ago
The Presbyterian church closely regulated the intimate lives of its members through a system of church court discipline.
A study of more than 400,000 people found 1% had never had sex – which was linked to a range of genetic, environmental and other factors.
‘The sex talk’ is not one single conversation. Here’s how to get started even if this seems super awkward.
French authorities allowed sex work because they believed brothels could help prevent interracial relationships from developing.
Griswold v. Connecticut, decided in 1965, set the precedent for several other landmark cases about sex and privacy.
Targeted vaccines and antiviral prophylaxis are expanding prevention options and redefining ‘safe sex’ for gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.
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Jenny Graves is a Friend of The Conversation.Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Vice Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Adolescent Health, Co-Head of the General Practice Clinical School, University of Sydney
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